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China probes safety of Danone products: state media
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 11, 2009Chinese authorities are investigating whether Danone Dumex, the powdered-milk unit of France's Danone Group, had produced milk powder contaminated with a harmful chemical, state media said Wednesday. The report follows a massive scandal in China in which milk supplies contaminted with melamine were blamed for killing six infants and sickening nearly 300,000. Xinhua news agency said the ... more China's returning migrants: Strangers in a strange land 
Zhugao, China (AFP) Feb 12, 2009With his Phoenix Suns windbreaker and a trendy hairdo that blasts off to one side of his head, Liu Tong appears totally out of place in the backward Chinese farming town he is forced to call home. No one knows it more than Liu, 22, a migrant worker from Zhugao in rural Sichuan province who is struggling to readjust to life here after getting laid off from a factory job on China's vastly more ... more World cocoa industry in danger: Ivory Coast minister 
Abidjan (AFP) Feb 10, 2009Ivory Coast's Agriculture Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly opened a cocoa forum on Tuesday with a warning of serious risks facing the industry in Africa which accounts for 70 percent of world output. Coulibaly told the Abidjan meeting on sustainable cocoa production that part of the problem lay in "the small part producers play in the stages of transformation" of cocoa beans into their end ... more NASA's Terra Captures Forest Fire Horror From Orbit 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 10, 2009Bushfires in southeastern Australia turned deadly over the first weekend of February 2009. Out-of-control fires raced into small communities and towns in Victoria, and more than 100 people had died as of February 9, according to news reports. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC News) reported that many of those who died had remained to protect their homes. Among the most ... more Putin urged to stop Siberia hydro-electric plant 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 10, 2009Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin must act to halt the construction of a proposed hydro-electric power station in Siberia, environmentalists said Tuesday, citing sociological and environmental concerns. "The Turukhanskaya construction project was blocked at the end of the 1980s as a result of serious ecological and economic expertise," Greenpeace Russia spokesman Mikhail Kreindlin said ... more |
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Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2009A new environmental satellite that will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world soared into space after a picture-perfect launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA-N Prime spacecraft lifted off at 2:22 a.m. PST aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 ... more Raytheon Submits Final Proposal For NOAA's Environmental Satellite Ground Segment 
Aurora CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2009Raytheon has submitted its final proposal for the development of the ground segment for NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series, known as GOES-R. "We are very pleased to have reached this point in the competition and are confident that our proposal offers the best solution at an affordable price for ... more Drought-hit China to divert waters from two longest rivers: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2009China will divert water from its two longest rivers to help farmers hit by the country's worst drought in decades, state media said Sunday. Water from the Yangtze River, the country's longest, will be diverted to the northern areas of eastern Jiangsu Province, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing Zhang Zhitong, a senior Ministry of Water Resources emergency official. The announcement ... more Afghan poppy police call in troops 
Nad Ali District, Afghanistan (AFP) Feb 8, 2009In the heart of Afghanistan's opium-farming area, police use red tractors to churn up a small field of young green opium plants in a large sandy desert. Such action would have been inconceivable a year ago because of attacks from Taliban-linked gunmen protecting their share of the impoverished nation's illegal four-billion-dollar-a-year opium trade. This year the drugs-linked rebels are ... more China resorts to artillery to fight drought 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2009China fired thousands of artillery shells into the sky to make it rain and prepared to divert water from its two longest rivers to fight the country's worst drought in decades, officials said Sunday. Premier Wen Jiabao said the drought - which has hit central and southwestern rice-growing provinces, as well as the north - risked straining food supplies when people already faced hardships ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009This artist's rendering shows a "family portrait" of Jason-1, Topex/Poseidon, and OSTM/Jason-2, all NASA satellites that collect data about sea surface heights around the world. Sea surface heights are one component helpful to hurricane forecasters, as higher seas indicate warmer waters (that power storms) while lower seas indicate cooler waters (such as those in La Nina events in the eastern Pa ... more Antarctic Expedition Prepared Researchers For Mars Project 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009About half a year before the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging into soil and subsurface ice of an arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data. They used duplicates of some of the Phoenix spacecraft's instruments, plus other methods, in the Antarc ... more How A Brain Chemical Changes Locusts From Harmless Grasshoppers To Swarming Pests 
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Feb 06, 2009Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in this week's edition of Science, could be used in the future to prevent the plagues which devastate crops (notably in developing countries), affecting the livelihood of one in ten people across the globe. A collaboration between a team of scientists in Cambridge and Oxfo ... more Fish-dependent countries face climate change threat: study 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Feb 6, 2009Climate change poses a grave threat to dozens of countries where people depend on fish for food, according to a study published Friday that said catches are imperilled by coastal storms and damage to coral reefs. The WorldFish research centre identified 33 countries as "highly vulnerable" to the effects of climate change because of their heavy reliance on fisheries and limited alternative so ... more Emergency as drought hits key farm regions in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2009China on Thursday declared an emergency for parts of the country experiencing their worst drought in half a century, with some of the nation's winter harvest at risk, state media reported. President Hu Jintao called for an all-out effort to help offset the dry spell that has spread across seven key farming provinces, leading to water shortages for millions of people and livestock. ... more
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